Yet another film I had seen a lot of buzz about before noticing it pop up on Shudder recently was the 2023 creature feature Infested. It’s a French film, initially released under the title Vermines, and is the full-length directorial debut of Sébastien Vaniček. The movie got overwhelmingly positive reviews and was financially successful during … More Movies: Infested (aka Vermines) (2023)
Australian filmmaker Jennifer Kent burst onto the horror landscape back in 2014 with her outstandingly creepy and well-received metaphorical horror film The Babadook (which I reviewed here), so when it came time for her sophomore effort to hit theaters, the community was abuzz, wondering what spooky delights she would come up with this time around. … More Movies: The Nightingale (2018)
The 2023 English/German horror film Baghead (not to be confused with the 2008 horror comedy of the same name directed by the Duplass Brothers) dropped on Shudder in April of 2024, and there seemed to be a bit of buzz around it, so I was curious to give it a look. I will say right … More Movies: Baghead (2023)
I was eleven years old in 1983 and had just started getting more seriously into horror (as well as beginning my lifelong obsession with new wave, goth, and post-punk music, so I was all off into the whole dark fantasia that would characterize my life up until the present day). I had seen and read … More My Favorite Horror Movies from Every Year Since I Was Born: 1983
Not long after I posted my review of Yorgos Lanthimos’s 2017 film The Killing of a Sacred Deer, seemingly everyone and their mama crawled out of the woodwork and told me that I absolutely must make time for an immediate viewing of the latest work from the Greek auteur, 2023’s Poor Things (which is loosely … More Movies: Poor Things (2023)
When I posted my review of Fright Night Part 2 a few days ago, a listener named Scott commented on my Facebook page that he’d like to see a review of the 1993 Stephen King adaptation The Dark Half. I could have sworn Tom and I had reviewed that movie on 13 O’Clock already, but … More Movies: The Dark Half (1993)
The Scare Salon 